GÉRANDO (Joseph-Marie de). - Lot 93

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GÉRANDO (Joseph-Marie de). - Lot 93
GÉRANDO (Joseph-Marie de). Born in Lyon February 29, 1772 - died in Paris November 10, 1842. Conseiller d'État, Commander of the Legion of Honor, member of the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Major thinker of the early 19th century, close to Madame de Staël, author of Des signes et de l'art de penser (1800) and of pioneering works in anthropology and the philosophy of knowledge. He was also behind the creation of the École des Chartes, and was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1832. Autograph letter signed "B. de Gérando", addressed to an unnamed correspondent. Paris, January 9, 1840. 1 page in-4. Letter transmitting documents, revealing Gérando's administrative and scholarly activities in the last years of his life. He announces the dispatch of a second batch of documents requested by Ramón de la Sagra, a Spanish naturalist and economist then in contact with French intellectual circles. He asks his correspondent to forward these documents with the enclosed letter, and to take a copy by means of the enclosed slip, intended to accompany the shipment. The tone, both courteous and methodical, testifies to Gérando's administrative rigor and the importance he attached to the controlled circulation of documents. The letter concludes with the customary expressions of great civility: "perfect consideration" and "your humble servant". An interesting document for the study of Franco-Spanish intellectual networks and documentary exchanges in the first half of the 19th century.
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